Did you ever hear of the Plain English Campaign? They're active in Britain to make the English of official documents, you guessed it, plainer. It would be foolhardy not to be very careful with correctly completing legal forms, if you ran a business, but that doesn't mean the government isn't obligated to make them as easy to understand as possible.
Ditto product names. Nothing about 'XP Embedded' says 'realtime', or 'guaranteed stability' to me. Just that it'll have a reasonably small footprint, won't need a monitor or other peripherals, and is in some way related to the other XPs. If it isn't, why the hell is it called XP?
They should probably have given it a different name if it's completely different. Otherwise, it would be fair to assume that the kernel is kinda similar.
I don't see why it would be harder, providing you have more hard-or-impossible-to-obtain-in-region-1 dvds on your wishlist than friends who want to watch them. In any case, you can look up the hack required on the same site (almost) every time. Every rare dvd would involve scouring the net for something that may not exist.
Almost all recent dvd players are reprogrammable to different regions an unlimited number of times. Find your model number and search for it on one of the several online databases of reprogramming instructions. That should be easier than searching for a specific region encoding of every dvd you want to buy.
The usual procedure is to make your player region '0', shorthand for all regions enabled. Some dvds (but not many) detect this and will not play. In that case, change the region again to the specific region of the dvd.
It's not really an outrageous demand, if Microsoft only filed for the patent to prevent someone else doing it. If they intend to make money off it in some other way than charging every mail server operator, though, then it wouldn't be an acceptable condition. In that case, licensing is the solution, but that license must be irrevocable. Can't have MS coming along 10 years later and changing the terms unilaterally.
Someone 15 years old would be how old exactly when Freespace 2 came out? And BC2K? That was out in 97, right? Granted, it was only playable 3 years later... so, in brief, NO.
Fair enough; I admit that you can't make that inference. I'm concerned about 'appearances' though - 12 out of 440 isn't insignificant (would you expect that proportion of your own acquaintances to be paeodophiles?), but 20 out of 10000 is approaching the level at which you can't really be shocked anymore. If Freenet attracts harsh comment before it can support that kind of size, things will get icky, and I don't want that, because a huge, scalable Freenet will make the Internet a better place to inhabit.
I have no way of telling the proportion, but there are links (as you said) to child porn on the indexes, and for all I know there could be gigabytes of content on those sites.
I was really thinking back to when IIP was working, and was plainly being used as a distribution mechanism in concert with Freenet. Any sites publicised that way would be unlikely to be spidered. But you've called me out, I can't prove it's the main channel of distribution - just make the point that it's a highly visible one (it shocked me, certainly), directly as a consequence of the lack of need for any discretion on an anonymous network.
I looked into this roughly at the end of 2003. I don't know the current score.
This is true (the extent is unbelievable, actually) but it's important that it doesn't break apart the Freenet project before the software is stable and fast enough to be valuable for better reasons.
And 'semi-normal' is not an adjective I would apply to child porn distributers.
Easier to use it may be - may - but it doesn't change the broken-ness of windows' security model. If you normally log in as the equivalent of root in windows, then it should be secure by default. It isn't, and that needs to change, even if it makes things take one more step to do sometimes.
I'm using one right now. NTL is my provider. BT is being very AOLish in its advertising etc. at the moment, so I'm not sure if NTL will follow suit, but I wouldn't be surprised.
If they can do that without any slowdown, good on them. However, presumably they aren't saying what they're blocking, exactly. There's a problem with this, because if customers don't know they can't assure themselves that their internet usage isn't being unreasonably censored. But if you publish a list of illegal websites, that increases the ease with which anyone can find them (and alerts the owners of these websites that they are being monitored). So, while I can't deny that I'm glad these sites are being blocked, I don't think they should be - it's unworkable from a more general freedom of expression perspective.
The alterative is trusting a government body that you have real freedom of information rights. Say no more.
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Ditto product names. Nothing about 'XP Embedded' says 'realtime', or 'guaranteed stability' to me. Just that it'll have a reasonably small footprint, won't need a monitor or other peripherals, and is in some way related to the other XPs. If it isn't, why the hell is it called XP?
They should probably have given it a different name if it's completely different. Otherwise, it would be fair to assume that the kernel is kinda similar.
I don't see why it would be harder, providing you have more hard-or-impossible-to-obtain-in-region-1 dvds on your wishlist than friends who want to watch them. In any case, you can look up the hack required on the same site (almost) every time. Every rare dvd would involve scouring the net for something that may not exist.
The usual procedure is to make your player region '0', shorthand for all regions enabled. Some dvds (but not many) detect this and will not play. In that case, change the region again to the specific region of the dvd.
And you need a region 1 disc because?
Dumb people are really boring.
Yeah, no shit! And higher doses of coke are supposed to be better for you, are they?
It's not really an outrageous demand, if Microsoft only filed for the patent to prevent someone else doing it. If they intend to make money off it in some other way than charging every mail server operator, though, then it wouldn't be an acceptable condition. In that case, licensing is the solution, but that license must be irrevocable. Can't have MS coming along 10 years later and changing the terms unilaterally.
So make them dedicate the patent.
Someone 15 years old would be how old exactly when Freespace 2 came out? And BC2K? That was out in 97, right? Granted, it was only playable 3 years later... so, in brief, NO.
Pretty fucking obscure though, isn't it?
Fair enough; I admit that you can't make that inference. I'm concerned about 'appearances' though - 12 out of 440 isn't insignificant (would you expect that proportion of your own acquaintances to be paeodophiles?), but 20 out of 10000 is approaching the level at which you can't really be shocked anymore. If Freenet attracts harsh comment before it can support that kind of size, things will get icky, and I don't want that, because a huge, scalable Freenet will make the Internet a better place to inhabit.
I was really thinking back to when IIP was working, and was plainly being used as a distribution mechanism in concert with Freenet. Any sites publicised that way would be unlikely to be spidered. But you've called me out, I can't prove it's the main channel of distribution - just make the point that it's a highly visible one (it shocked me, certainly), directly as a consequence of the lack of need for any discretion on an anonymous network.
I looked into this roughly at the end of 2003. I don't know the current score.
Apple to remain unaffected, release 35" computer screen.
Most people rather resent the lack of hard news during the summer months, you know...
And 'semi-normal' is not an adjective I would apply to child porn distributers.
Is performance acceptable, or more of a slideshow?
I get pop3 from yahoo (uk) as well, and I have a regular free account. Am I missing something here?
Easier to use it may be - may - but it doesn't change the broken-ness of windows' security model. If you normally log in as the equivalent of root in windows, then it should be secure by default. It isn't, and that needs to change, even if it makes things take one more step to do sometimes.
Let me add novel applications like Freenet to the list. That shifts a lot of data around.
I'm using one right now. NTL is my provider. BT is being very AOLish in its advertising etc. at the moment, so I'm not sure if NTL will follow suit, but I wouldn't be surprised.
The alterative is trusting a government body that you have real freedom of information rights. Say no more.
So you can have Ogg Musepack files. Would this be useful?
The GPL is a 'non-exclusive, perpetual, no-cost license'. So licensing your plugin to them under the GPL should be ok.
Well that was certainly a small load of propaganda.